Texas · Nonprofit
The Texas State Historical Association
The Texas State Historical Association (Texas) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,200 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($445,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What The Texas State Historical Association does
Mission
TSHA Publications and Digital Gateway content delivery. Program Summary See Schedule O for details: Handbook of Texas, Southwest Historical Quarterly, TSHA Press, Texas Almanac, Legacy of Texas Online Store, Digital Gateway, Texas Day by Day Feed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TSHA Publications and Digital Gateway content delivery. Program Summary: See Schedule O for details: Handbook of Texas, Southwest Historical Quarterly, TSHA Press, Texas Almanac, and Legacy of Texas Online Store.
$690,784 spent50% of program spendingTSHA ANNUAL MEETING CONFERENCE. TSHA will be hosting its 127th Annual Meeting March 2 to 4, 2023, in El Paso at the Paso Del Norte Hotel and the Judson F. Williams Convention Center. Held each year since the founding of TSHA, the Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of its kind for Texas history enthusiasts and professional and independent scholars. This event offers a range of opportunities for individuals and organizations working in historical, cultural, preservationist, and tourist services. More than 700 people regularly attend the meeting, and another 170,000 TSHA members and constituents are reached through email and social and traditional media about the event. In addition to 150 speakers and more than 40 panels, the SAN JACINTO SYMPOSIUM. The Battle of San Jacinto Symposium is an annual program sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association, with support from the San Jacinto Battleground Association and others, to showcase cutting-edge historic research on topics relating to the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, the 1821 to 1835 Mexican colonial period, the 1835 to 1836 Texas Revolution, and the 1836 to 1845 Republic of Texas period. The symposium started in 2001, with…
$376,380 spent$81,652 earned by the program27% of program spendingSTUDENT PUBLICATIONS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TEACHER RESOURCES, and FELLOWSHIP AWARDS. FELLOWSHIPS. TSHA offers 8 donor-funded fellowships worth $12,500 focused on Texas history research. Awards. TSHA offers 18 donor-funded awards worth $45,500 focused on research, publication, and teaching Texas history. JUNIOR HISTORIANS CLUB OF TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HISTORIAN JOURNAL. The Junior Historians Club of Texas consists of grades 4 to 12 extracurricular clubs with 10 active chapters across the state. The Texas Historian is one of the few historical journals in the nation dedicated to publishing the historical analysis of young Texas scholars. Walter Prescott Webb Historical.
$299,993 spent$69,233 earned by the program22% of program spendingAll other programs
$7,326 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,374,483.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $2.4M (−30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 72% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of The Texas State Historical Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
J P Bryan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $61k → $195k.
8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Humanities Texas). These are real filings, and they are not money The Texas State Historical Association raised.
From the IRS filings of The Texas State Historical Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Texas State Historical Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 33% · 2019 46% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of The Texas State Historical Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of The Texas State Historical Association's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Texas State Historical Association's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Texas State Historical Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Texas State Historical Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Texas State Historical Association?
- The Texas State Historical Association (Texas) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,200 to it, the largest being THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION ($445,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Texas State Historical Association have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,543,200 in grants to The Texas State Historical Association, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Texas State Historical Association?
- THE SUMMERLEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Texas State Historical Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 48 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing